AJ Vicens

AJ was a senior reporter for CyberScoop covering nation-state threats and cybercrime. He was previously a reporter at Mother Jones.

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Researchers uncover more than 167,000 stolen credit card numbers, primarily from the U.S.

Threats

The Iranian national flag is seen outside the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters during the agency’s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna on March 1, 2021. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian hackers that tampered with 2020 election could once again target U.S., FBI warns

Geopolitics

Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Adam Hickey. (Pixelme Studios).

Top DOJ official ‘pleased’ with multiagency and branch response to courts data breach

Government

Chinese flag made by children holding up colored boards in North Korea on Sept. 6, 2012. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

Chinese-linked hackers targeted U.S. state legislature, researchers say

Threats

polling place, election site — (Lorie Shaull / Flickr)

Election workers in battleground states faced onslaught of malicious emails, researchers say

Threats

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‘IT security issue’ impacts multiple hospitals across several states

Threats

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‘Poisoned’ Tor Browser tracks Chinese users’ online history, location

Threats

Visitors sit at the stand of Russian antivirus software development company Kaspersky Lab on the opening day of the MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona on Feb. 28, 2022. (Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

Can Kaspersky survive the Ukraine war?

Geopolitics

Mourners at a funeral ceremony in Tehran on Aug. 4 for five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps killed during the conflict against the Islamic State group in Syria. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. government takes sweeping action against Iranian hackers accused of ransomware spree

Threats